Bystander Apathy: A Case Study of Catherine Genovese

Bystander Apathy and Effect are both a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. Bystanders can be in many things as in bullying for example. Bystander happens around everyday (Wikipedia Contributors).
Catherine Genovese, a twenty-eight year-old who was on her way home in her build-up neighborhood in a late night shift as a bar manager. She was a manager in Queens, New York, but that night she was suddenly attacked by a man named Winston Moseley with a knife. Catherine was screaming and pleading for help that she got stabbed, but nobody comes to help her even though they heard her yelling for help. People not just didn't try to help, but didn´t even refuse to help her call the police. They didn't want to help or call the police because they didn't want to be involved in it. Murderer Moseley saw lights coming nearby and knew people were watching him , so he escaped and left Catherine there injured. Catherine was dragging herself towards a doorway bleeding, she could survive at this point, but later Moseley the attacker came back and started doing the same thing that he was doing to Catherine because he said in the court that nobody wants to help her or try to stop him for attacking. As badly

weakened by now, she still screaming for help with the 38 witnesses nearby or saw her getting attacked. It takes place in about an hour in a half in total, but by the time people called for police to help her and by the time the police came, there was no hope. She is dead (¨Bystander Apathy¨).
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In bystander effect, it may include a lot of negative impact on prosocial behavior or another. These include witnessing, helping behavior which is when one sees others helping another and making yourself wanting to help that person because that is seen kind by oneself as in donating stuffs, helping others and more etc. Being observant is when people wanting to help and did it, but failed to help because they didn´t know what was the action that was happening before they started to help. Peoples that are being skilled and knowledgeable would be the best kind of person to help because they know what to do to help because they are the skilled ones and are prepared for help for emergencies as in the training of CPR. Some people even like to see people being attacked or like to not help others, even some tries to get involved! Many or most kinds of people are willing to help and did not help because the reasons may be they're scared or scared of itself getting involved and will be in it too. There will be someone out there that sees one that truly deserves the help will want to help because they see that they did something good to someone and wants to owe them back what they deserve. Brave kind people can be a person that could help the ones that needed the help and make themselves happy for helping others (¨How to overcome the bystander effect¨?).
Bystander effect and apathy is something that causes it to happen and trying to solve it after or may not.

It just depends on oneself. When solving a bystander, many people that know the problem and see the actions can gather together and talk about it to help out. Many kinds of behavior are included in it as in witness helping behavior, being observant, being skilled and knowledgeable, guilt, having a personal relationship, seeing others as deserving of the help and feeling good. Bystanders can also be experienced as in people trying to do it and see what is the reaction to it. Just like in

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Genovese, a murderous killing Catherine and he sees no one trying to help her as the reaction, so he continued (¨Bystander Effect¨).